Attention Will Be on Fed's Language, Lignos Says
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz fills in for Tom Keene while he's off on Spring break. John Silvia, Wells Fargo Chief Economist, predicts the second half of this year will be challenging for some financial markets. Eileen Burbidge, Passion Capital Partner, says she assumes investors want to hear directly from Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg in the near future. Elsa Lignos, RBC Global Head of FX Strategy, says there will be a lot of attention on the language used in the Fed decision today. Stephanie Miller, Height Securities Senior Vice President, thinks Facebook will confront more of a reckoning with Wall Street than Washington.
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| 1:10.0 | he won't break his silence within the next 24 hours and my question is whether it's |
| 1:14.3 | a fluffy webcast about making the world a better place and his commitment to do that |
| 1:19.1 | or whether he will actually sit in front of a reporter and take some serious questions in a way that he hasn't |
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| 1:41.6 | Fed rate hikes actually lead to a tightening of financial conditions |
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